August 27, 2025

The Geneva Centre on Knowledge Governance has been researching cases of Computational Research (or Text and Data Mining) aimed at public interest outcomes in Africa, Latin America and elsewhere. From a health chatbot in South Africa to a culturally-sensitive LLM for Chile and Latin America, we document the work of AI developers, especially in the Global South. This is part of our work to analyse whether and how copyright and AI policies need to contain provisions which consider the social impact of AI. See our Case Studies on Text and Data Mining.

Are you trying to keep track of all the litigation by rights holders and creators against Generative AI companies? Litigation is under way covering a range of works, from musical compositions to books and journalism. In some cases the arguments presented and judgements handed down in these cases may begin to define the likely policy direction for copyright in the age of AI. In the first of a series of articles and papers on this topic, Geneva Centre counsel Andrés Izquierdo wrote an Infojustice blog entitled AI, Copyright, and the Future of Creativity: Notes from the Panama International Book Fair. Watch this space for more.

It is official – the Centre on Knowledge Governance will be launching in the coming months. In September and October 2025 we expect to publish some of our new research, including our case studies of Computational Research and AI for Good in the Global South. In November and December we will be present at the upcoming WIPO meetings, including the CDIP and SCCR47. Watch this space for announcements and for special events in Geneva and online. See our calendar for all upcoming events: https://knowledgegov.org/events/